year but not for those who planted afterward-the early planters would be penalized later) when their con- tracts came up for renewal. However, the senators solemnly provided that producers of the same crop would be treated the same-that is, a soybean producer in one part of the country who planted before the sequestration order would receive no favorable treat- ment over a soybean producer from another part of the country who planted after the sequestration order. Similarly, a student who received a federally guaranteed loan before the sequestration order would be able to keep it for that school year, but the loan would be subject to the cuts in the following year. A Democratic alterna- tive to Gramm-Rudman was allowed to come to a vote, and it was rejected, as everyone knew it would be. As the debate went on into the week of Octo- ber 7th, Dole placed in the Congres- sional Record what he referred to as "tremble letters" from the Treasury Department that said that the govern- ment was about to run out of money. But on Wednesday Treasury, using an obscure procedure, provided itself with another five billion dollars. Dole was embarrassed and angry-but the Senate, though it now had more time, went ahead and adopted the Gramm- Rudman amendment by an over- whelming vote of seventy-five to twenty-four. Twenty-seven of forty-seven Dem- ocrats voted for the amendment. Among them was Edward M. Ken- nedy, of Massachusetts, who just be- fore the vote said that he realized that there were problems with the proposal which he hoped would be worked out when the Senate and the House tried to reach a final agreement on it. Then Kennedy said, "We can no longer do nothing . We can no longer afford a deadlock in which Congress stands its grounds and the President refuses to meet us even halfway." He pointed out that the proposal would call for sacrifices in the military bud- get, and he said, "We are all crying fire in the overcrowded theatre of the federal deficit. We cannot continue to debate endlessly which fire extin- guisher to use while the fire itself rages on." Hart, in his closing state- ment before he voted against the Gramm-Rudman proposal, said that the proposal "is going to take the failure of Reaganomics out on the peo- ple who can afford It the least." Hart went on to say, "I think it is tragic and a travesty that those who visited that failure upon us are those who are coming back now to say to those peo- ple who are the victims of that failure, 'Y ou are going to bear the rest of the burden.' " The seeming role reversal on the part of Hart, formerly the cool man of "new ideas" and the rejecter of "the politics of the past," and Ken- nedy, formerly the passionate liberal, may well have something to do with their presumed needs as they get in position for possible races for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1988. Kennedy has also eXplained his vote in terms of what he sees as the Democrats' need to show that they are fiscally prudent so that they can pro- ceed to meet people's needs-as, he points out, several Democratic gover- nors have done. Adoption of the amendment did not mean that its sponsors were finished writing it. Following its adoption, Domenici submitted twenty-five fur- ther changes that had been worked out among various senators, and, after Hart complained about the Senate's being railroaded once again, these were adopted on Thursday. Hart said, "This has been one of the sorriest weeks for the chamber in recent mem- ory." He pointed out that the Senate is supposed to be the "deliberative body," acting not in haste and quick reaction to the political temper. Hart objected to "legislation in the cloakroom," say- ing that it would leave little record for future legislators to know what was intended. On Thursday, before the fi- nal bill-containing the multiply amended Gramm-Rudman proposal and the increase in the debt limit- was approved, some senators offered amendments to put the Senate to the test of whether it really wanted to take some difficult decisions to reduce the deficit. Two of these were offered by Bill Bradley, Democrat of New Jersey. One would have imposed a gasoline tax, and the other would have made a substantial cut in defense spending-a cut that Bradley said the Gramm- Rudman proposal could bring about. Both proposals were over- whelmingly defeated-as Bradley had expected. On the day before, a strong piece by Bradley had appeared on the op-ed page of the Washington Post. 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